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Latin
Etymology
Believed to be an alteration of Old Latin *sodium, from Proto-Italic *sodjom, from Proto-Indo-European *sodyom (compare Old Irish suide (“seat”)), from *sed-.
Pronunciation
Noun
solium n (genitive soliī or solī); second declension
- seat, chair
- Synonyms: sedes, sella
- throne, chair of state, official seat
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 5.19–20:
- Saepe aliquis soliō, quod tū, Sāturne, tenēbās,
ausus dē mediā plēbe sedēre deus.- Often some deity, from amid the common class, dared to sit in the throne which you, Saturn, were occupying.
- (figuratively) rule, sway, dominion
- tub, bathtub
- stone coffin, sarcophagus
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “solium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “solium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- solium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- solium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “solium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “solium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin